The Polymerase Chain Reaction From the Reviews

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"The editors have tapped many of the leaders in PCR innovation to explore their particular twists on the technique and to discuss its impact on their fields. The resulting chapters provide thorough examinations of basic and advanced PCR techniques, with a satisfying balance between theoretical analyses and observed results, and often include the type of anecdotal advice not found in journal articles. Mullis 's preface has the stream-oficonsciousness style of a newsy letter, and he introduces many of the authors with colorful, good-natured similes and personal anecdotes that amuse and add depth to the following chapters. Mullis tells a good story as he recounts his invention of PCR in 1983 and the subsequent patent travails. "-SCIENCE "PCR The Polymerase Chain Reaction is not just a manual of techniques, but represents the considered experience ofpractitioners, some familiar with the use of PCR and some interested in extending its application to new areas... A chapter on nonbiological applications, using PCR as a product tag, was unique and extraordinary. Some contributions, such as one on infectious diseases , and another on genetics, plants and PCR, incorporate large numbers of publications and applications in their respective fields...Overall, it is a useful book and, for a variety of reasons, is unique among books in this field. I am delighted to have a copy. "-TVends in BioTechnology